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1 hao watchman - hscripi'00 l'"r year two dollars â€” payable in fl *"* but if not paid in advance two dollars v'iii'i'v cts will be charged b<1!^eÂ«e.vrs inserted at 1 for the first nnd q5 cts v ll'l??i 3ubsequeni insertion court orders charged ff eatct higher than these rates a liberal deduc â€¢ to those l|0 advertise hy lhe year v i the editors must he post paid lot s fbaxcisco california ? july 13th 1850 s , v bruner sp james â€¢ " if my last letter was so for ie as to reach you you will have followed in my progress toward the land of gold as n crures i slept there on the nighl of i(j;h nt may upon one of about thirty nrran^ed around lhe rooms like stalls in â€¢Â« three deep with a space of one foot be ' ecu the temperature was precisely right j wjihoul blanket or other cover but with a od cane covered roof between me and the , ot heaven let alone the two sleepers who cupied successively lhe shelves above me i u0 soundly and had a sweet dream of i waa un betimes next morning sunday n _ :*. v i 1 1 <_ appropriated the balance of my two irs worth of accommodation in lhe shape v],v slices of fried hum of questionable soundness and some really good boiled rice washed down with some tolerable coffee with â€¢ nut milk i commenced my negotia j or the transportation of my traps to pa iiiitri there were something over a hundred ol mv fellow travellers who were about to eio iale ihe sabbath in a similar way and of course s were " in demand i had just 175 pound of baggage to wit that big trunk of mine filled with law books an india rubber lag of clothing and a carpet bag filled with sundries including some " select stores â€” there was a plenty of mules and a plenty ol drivers bul the latter seemed to shy in a most especial manner my " big trunk :" al length i hroti"hl in upon aid prayer a sort of tionde icripl european who seemed to talk all lan guages with the same facility and with about ihe same degree of purity who was acting as interpreter between the hombres and the ame rican i al first thought him an exceedingly benevolent fellow as he made no charge for i hi services but i presently discovered lhat he , had a trick of appropriating to himself the dif ference between the ten good dimes which he insisted upon receiving to the dollar and the light which he actually paid over to the hom bres who were to perform the service at length the negotiations so far as i was con cerned were closed at the following prices : â€” 16 for the big trunk to be carried by a pack mule and 5 for lhe iwo bags to be tole.el by a couple of hombres finding by means ol lhe trifling amount of spanish which i had learned tbat my men were not particular about tbe payment being in advance [ got off for lhe present with a payment of 2 50 the halance to be paid at panama you see i had an eye to tbe saving of the iwo dimes and i may add ! lhat the thing was accomplished without diffi culty at panama it will occur to you that i have made no mention of the price of my own passage the truth is that while almost all of my fellow travellers took mules to ride at 16 each i made up my mind lo walk ; and so af , ter seeiiii my baggage safely on the way i i i leisurely slung my provisions at my side a box : of sardines and half dozen sea biscuit put my colt's revolver in my pocket and started on alone it was now something past nine o i clock and the weather to say the least toler ably warm however i had an umbrella and as i was in no sort of hurry i resolved to " take it coolly i found lhe path by no means so difficult as i had supposed it seems to have been paved at some remote period of lime the j whole way from cruces to panama the j rains and the ravel have however broken it up much of the way and when this islhecase it is of course very rough and irregular the path is in places cut down ten or twelve feet below the general surface and is frequently too narrow for mules to pass each other add to this that the rank and luxuriant vegetation rneet in together at the top forms a dense roof over ' bead thus making a pretty close tunnel for equestrian asinine or pedestrian exercise ! â€” \ your iriend however found the road by no means monotonous or disagreeable some limes he would emerge like a mole from his underground passage and get a very pleasant view oi ihe scenery around there was no lack ol streams and springs of good water and here and there a native's lint by the wayside with possibly a fair senorita swinging lazily in a hammock presented an opportunity to halt and rest i overtook my two parties a short distance from cruces and found much to my vexation lhat they had joined teams with a couple ol fi'llows who were carrying a piece cf cast iron machinery that must have weigh ed three hundred pound the two couples yvere relieving each other at intervals and at tbe rale they were going i saw it must lake them at least two days lo reach panama j re dionstrated with my men and offered ihem cmquos peros live dollars if they would part company with their more heavily laden com panions hut it was of no use and after wast ing an hour in useless entreaty i passed on and left my bags lo their fate before five o'clock i had completed half my journey â€” 1 had taken it extremely leisurely but still as you may suppose was something sweaty i began to think of a change of linen with reference to a comfortable night's fesi and as there was a possibility that my two wen might come up iu the course of the even mg and as it was a very good camping ground with a spring of water and two or three huls hard by i concluded to call a halt for the night my example was followed by others as they successively came up ; and as it occurred to me that with the rather limited sleeping ac commodations to be found in lhe huts there would soon be a demand for lhe " besl beds i took the precaution to engage a hammock the only one the place afforded at the price ol sis reals this done i made a very nice division of provender and devoured the one moiety thereof lor my supper with a more than usual v keen relish gratifying however the curi osity of mine host's family in relation to my1 sardines by presenting ibem severally with rather small portions of that savory edible ibe evening wore away and my two men \ still failed to make their appearance i stretch ed myself in my hammock to try it what a ! charming lied and i was gelling sleepy but Â» wouldn't do to go to slesp so for my clothes were as wet as if i had just swam the yadkin and i should get sick and take the fever ! bul will it was so vastly tempting i must take a ittle snooze and so â€” i fell asleep and when i woke it was broad day light of a monday morning ! i took a peep from my lofty throne and dis covered that tbe floor of the hut was strewed j the car0lin watchaman j j bruner ) > " keep a check tnros all your editor sf proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrieon ( volume vii number 18 salisbury n c thursday september 12 1850 round willi dry hides which my fellow travel lers hail appropriated al the raie of two reals each : mine host was beginning to pound the rice for the matutinal meal while madame and the senorilas were gathering the means and appliances for preparing a kettle of coffee which she soon after began to serve out to her customers al ihe ra'e of a picayune for the gourdfiil with the aid of this luxury my re maining stock of provisions furnished me a ve ry good breakfitsl the whole being rounded off with a " native segar purchased upon the pre miscs at the rate of a real a dozen at seven i was again under way carrying somewhat lighter weights than before in about an hour i came up with the mule carrying my big trunk ihe hombre in attendance having stopped lo take a drink i simply gave the latter a nod of recognition and paÂ«sed on satisfied lhat all would he right i'he road began now lo im prove the houses became more numerous passengers more frequent baskets of fruit were displayed for sale bananas limes or anges lhe hitter of the very finest description and dog cheap i passed the bridge two miles from town where i found several americans wailing upon the lookout for friends and about half a mile on called a halt at some fine springs where i saw great numbers of the natives washing it appeared lhal this was the prin cipai source for the supply of water for the city the transportation being effected by mules car ' tying four jars each lashed lo a pack saddle i j soon took the road again being curious to see tbe city indications of lhe presence andcha j racterislics of my own countrymen now be i came sufficiently apparent upon rude shan j lies ihickly scattered along lhe road side i coarsely painted signs were displayed as if to invite the weary traveller to repose the " ir ving house the " astor the " fremont the lovejoy's c severally presented their claims to consideration i contented myself with a single glass of " root beer which an enter j prising youth was dealing out from a two by four feet stall at a liule past ten i was marching up to the gates ofthe city â€” for panama is a walled town â€” and looking out for quarters the hotels along the principal street were sufficiently numerous but among them all i am free to confess it i had no hesitation in making choice of the " new england house its name was so very pleasantly suggestive of codfish and " baked beans !" i engaged board at fifteen dimes 1 87 _) per day and secured the use of a litlle cage of a room close under the roof of tho house for myself and one other prefering this tolaking my chance among the general herd who were fore ed lo strew themselves at night along the floors and tables the hotel was crowded to over flowing with all sorts of people talking all sorts ol languages and the " noise and confusion kept the old grey headed landlord in a state of continual and very unpleasant excitement i now began to have doubts about the genuine ness of his puritanism fori discovered lhat he cursed and blasphemed with a most unusual degree of bitterness and volubility to my inquiries upon this head he informed me that he had bought out the establishment from a yankee who had recently quilled it for califor nia but lhat for himself he was from the eas tern part of north carolina ! this announce j ment did'nt set me back any as you may i suppose the landlord and i afier that got i into a way of having a liltle spread of ham and eggs " to ourselves them must have been three thousand ame ricans in and about the city waiting for a pas | sage to california some had been there sev | eral weeks others for months tickets were selling as high as 800 some were turning an honest penny and bettering their pecuniary i condition â€” others wasting their small pittance day by day gambling was rife : monti ta bles to be seen at every corner drinking loo was quite fashionable the buildings at panama are all old and many of them a good deal gone to decay the churches however still retain traces of their former magnificence the lowers of some of them are ornamented with rows of pearl shells : the altars candlesticks c are in some in j stances of massive silver our american boys however treat these sacred things with a sad want of reverence sometimes lighting iheir se gars at llie candles burning before lhe altars and sometimes watering their mules at the holy founts ! the streets are generally paved in clining to the centre which lorms a gutter â€” the houses have but few windows and these are without glass being closed with shutters the city mighl be kept clean at a very small expense but is really in a very filly condition it will however be americanized in a short ime i remained in the city just two days â€” my men came up with my bagage in due time ev fry thing safe i think the natives from cha gres to panama the most honest people i have ever met with i was continually passing mule loads of gold and silver on my walk to pana ma without any thing like a sufficient guard in any instance i find i shall not have space to enter much into the detail of my trip irom panama to san francisco we stopped but once touching at acapulco just one week irom panama for fuel water and iruits the harbor here is one of1 the prettiest i ever saw you run in for about ' half a mile through a passage of the same width turn short to your lell and find yourself in a circular basin three fourths of a mile in diameter completely landlocked by high moun tains with the town just before you rising from ! the shore to the top of the mountains all ! kinds of tropical fruits are here cheap and abundant i think that much of the travel from the slates to california will hereafter be by j way of vera cruz mexico and this place â€” | having remained at acapulco two days we i were off again for california we had suffer ! ed somewhat from heat hitherto but within two days we began lo feel the cold winds from lhe northwest and strange lo say when we were precisely under the sun overcoats were need ed wo made land only once near cape st lucas until we reached the vicinity of this i place the practice usually being to keep near the shore most of the way for the last day | or two we run along wiihin six or eight miles of the coast a continuous range of lofty and precipitous mountains skirls lhe shore these are for lhe most part barren of irees ; and in deed so far as i could see of all vegetation whatsoever i learned however from those who ought to know that what appeared lo he but yellow sand was really wild oats just ripe ! thursday morning june 20th the bustle in the cabin started me rather earlier lhan usual and upon going on deck i found lhal i were in sight of the golden gate a mere gap in the mountains say a mile wide we entered it near due east three or four miles turned short around a promontory on our right five or six hundred feel high and â€” what a sight ! if you have seen the shipping at new york you have some idea of il ; a forest of masts with flags of all nations flying at their peaks ! i got my self and baggage landed for two dollars and the latter carried three squares to where i put up for iwo more besides paying forty cents for wharfage i have now been here three weeks and three days and have so far got over the confusion incidental to my first impressions as to be able to give you some facts every thing in the shape of merchandise can be had here in the greatest abundance things which are in demand being three or four times the prices in the slates ; things which are not in demand are auctioned off tor almost nothing thick warm clothing is requisite the year round â€” i speak o this city : up lhe country it is frequently very hot al mid day the climate of ihis place is in me a mystery the greatest range of the thermometer has been from 50 lo 70 since i have been here â€” i believe il has not touched eiiher point it is safe betting even that at 6 a lyl it will be within one degree of 60 at 12 1vi within one degree of 68 ; at 5 p m wiihin one degree of 60 again and at 9 with in the same distance of 54 the consequence is lhat there is no absolute necessity of fires except to cook by and in fact not one room in twenty has a fire place why then the neces sity for so much clothing ? i sleep under more covering than i needed in the winter season in north carolina and i never think of going out after five p m without an overcoat the truth is the wind begins to rise by ten or twelve it blows from the north-west and while it don't effect the thermometer much it certainly tells upon the human frame it is said however that there is no difference between summer and winter except that one is wet and other dry â€” and so dry ! just fancy the streets of salisbury covered four to six inches deep with ashes â€” suppose the wind blowing some where between a stiff breeze and a gale â€” how far do you think you could see what would be the condition of your eyes ? what of your clothes ? add in this connection the supposition that washing was five dollars a dozen ; what would you think of it ? such is san francisco ! as i have alluded to prices i will dilate a little board ranges irom seven dollars a day down to four including lodgings single meals at a restaurant from one to two dollars rent is the dearest thing in propor tion i pay 75 a month for my office a small room 16 feet by 9 on a second floor a cot mattrass pillow and blankets exclusive of the bed linen cost me 50 other things in propor tion it would take a big pile to live here long at lhat rate however i am beginning to do something for myself i have taken in 130 for fees in the past week and have two big cases on hand which will " net me something hand some i trust there is another thing it is all hard money in this democratic country and i take it that counterfeit " fellers would go about as well as any â€” for so far as i see there is now " sly inspection of any coin every body counts it gold as well as silver just as a gam bler does his checks by first counting one pile then making the others of the same height ! â€” speaking of gambling you may see more here in one hour lhan you could possibly see in a lifetime in the united states it perfectly ap pals me â€” i used to indulge occasionally in a small way and among select b'hoys but i have never risked a dollar upon a game in califor nia i am retained by a defendant who bet upon a credit till he lost 4000 and is no sued for the recovery of that sum there is no statute upon the subject and how the judges will hold the common law of the state to be i cannot tell some of these functionaries have bled recently as i understand to the extent of their year's salaries themselves ! one of them the other night " run agin four nines while he held only " a ace full ! ! so i was told ! on the whole this is a great country and things is lively there are lots of doctors with nothing to do for one thing is certain tbe city is healthy nothing in lhe shape of sickness pre vails except dysentery which is owing to the too free use of the water the latter contains magnesia and requires to be slightly dashed of preachers there is but a limited number but as there is no demand the market is dull of lawyers i don't know lhe precise number i should set it down at a rough estimate at two hundred and doubtless there are more " a comin but there is " lots of law business no article is manufactured which can be hrought from elsewhere printers carpenters painters masons and common laborers are al ways in demand one building in fifty is a dwelling house the balance are stores restau rants gambling houses offices and hotels rank ing by numbers iu the order named i sup pose there are more restaurants here than in any other city in the united slates not exclu ding new york the city authorities are about to direct the grading and planking of eight or ten of the principal streets and the construction of several large wharves the city hall containing various court rooms and rooms for the city officers is about 100 by 50 feet in size and four stories high the county has purchased a lot on which to erect a court house at a cost of 120,000 the cily is laid off into squares with sides of 100 varas and 150 varas the vara being two feet nine inches in length on one side of the portsmouth square the old plaza there are four buildings occupying the whole space oi 276 feet ihree of them are exclusively devoted to gambling containing but a single room each running back say a hundred feet i say exclusively there is however a bar to each forty or fifty feet long and one of lhe rooms has four bill iard tables these rooms are usually well filled during the day and crowded al night â€” j there are sixteen large chandeliers to a room i 1 and the walls are hung round with paintings of i most costly but not of the most deiicale de ', scription the fourth building is of brick just , completed four stories high above the base â€¢ ment and fire proof i do not know to what use it is to be appropriated the city has be ! , fore it a career such as the world has never i seen wealth luxury magnificence power i a people distinguished by intelligence activity j and great abilities these will be hers ; butthe : i pure morals the domestic virtues â€” the domes ] tic happiness enjoyed by the people of poorer ; i states will alas ! be wanting you will certainly write to me and give me ' | a detail of all that has occurred since i left the ;â– ; place god knows the old toyvn is dear lo me \ ! and i shall return to it one day as to a home yours truly j c " and the lord said unto satan from ! j whence comest thou ? and satan answered j i the lord and said from going to and fro in â– | the earth and from walking up and down in il , job 2d chap 2d vr that man who goes wandering about over , mountains hills and plains not seeking whom ; he may " devour but whom he may interro gale concerning peas and beans and tbe like j cannot be treated with much injustice we are ! inclined lo think if compared to the enemy of i the human race after mature reflection and examination ofthe highest authorities we give i it as our legal opinion that such an individual might be successfully prosecuted as an officious i meddler in private affairs we say the man | yvho unblushingly walks into a parlor and pre j j sumes to ask ladies old and young their names ! and more especially their ages richly deserves ; the frowns ot the whole sex ; and perhaps he i would not be maltreated hoyvever hard he might i deem his peculiar case if all the dogs hounds ! and curs yvere turned loose upon him just think of lhe fellow's impudence will you ? â€” why he just walks in â€” he does affect to " bow and scrape a little but all for mere show â€” and scarcely takes time lo seal himself before he commences his silly nonsense a tolera tion of such conduct is altogether intolerable and a lady would do herself credit in our estima tion by throwing hot water on such scamps as practice it a young man sat out a month ago on a mis sion someyvhat like that above sketched his food was various and not seldom precarious his hat was panama ; his coat variable for it changed witb the signs of the times chamelion like ; his vest decidedly modest and by no means costly ; and other things adapted to the foregoing he knew that shakespeare says " costly thy habit as thy purse can buy but not expressed in fancy ; rich not gaudy : for the apparel oft proclaims the man ; and they in france of the best rank and station are most select and generous chief in that but deemed it good advice only for meet occa sions under fit circumstances he had a com mission under the government of the united states travelled on horseback carried a port folia convenienly suspended in an oil-cloth cov ering and was authorized officially to proceed j in due manner and form to take what the old i women call tbe senses of tbe people and to be especially particular in ascertaining tbe exact ages ofall unmarried ladies and confirm ed bachelors he resolved in the outset not quiet ! ly to allow lhe motives ofthe government which ! he served to be assailed wisely concluding that ! one's real follies are enough to be borne he \ has strictly adhered to this determination and 1 has struggled hard in many instances against j the potent arguments of incensed old ladies â€” j incensed because they have a holy horror ot i taxes and look upon " taking the senses as ; the first step lo taxation ; and above all of fended in dignity at the mere presence of an â– official after the official had propounded all his ques tions on one occasion and they had been prompt ly answered the good old lady ruled forth as as follows : " noyv stranger i want you to tell me yvhat j j all this is for some tells me it is for direct j taxes and i can't see any other use in all of it it can't be for no good and there's no sort ofj use in it i'm opposed to all sich proceedins j so i am !" here the young man explained and became i almost eloquent in attempting to sustain the j government the good lady's wrath became | somewhat appeased but nol wholly suppressed " well she resumed " wont the plank road raise the taxes the official frankly acknowledged lhat such a thing might be among public contingences i but hinted that it was a matter foreign to his i business " yes said she excited beyond measure " i j knew it would be so i am imposed lo plank j roads any how and believe il a great sin to travel on them the almighty made lhe coun try good enough and it's a sin to build such great fine roads for your fine gentlemen you . ihink the ground's too good for you to walk on ; and want us poor people taxed to fine planks ; laid down for you now i tell you stranger i '. we'll submit to no sich unpositions the al ! mighty will visit you " senses as he did da j vid and cut you all off thank heaven ! yes j he will ; and you deserve it as richly as any set ', of fellers ever did ! you ought to be unsbamed j of yerselfs tryin to impress on us poor folks iu that sort so yer ought !" the census man here endeavored to explain but all to no purpose he soon gave up in despair and was compelled to decamp listening to the distant echoes of lhe enraged ladies voice when away from the confusion and fright of this scene he could not but repeat lo himself those beautiful lines of moore i " how calm how beautiful comes on the stilly hour when storms are gone ; then wurring minds have ditÂ»d away and clouds beneath the glancing ray melt off and leave the land and sea sleeping in bright tranquility ashboro1 herald he lhat hath slight thoughts of sin ne i ver had great thoughts of god the romance of sea bathing a scene on the banks a correspondent of the springfield republi ; can is responsible for the following story it j is a remarkable instance of disappointed love j and affections yvhich were not buried : during my passage down the bay i had caught several glaces of a familliar face i knew i had seen it before but where ? the lady as evidently had been subject to a jog of memory the exchange of a few glances sat isfied us both and we only wanted a proper op portuniiy or disposition to speak ten long years before we had parted in a huff and con sidering myself at the lime the aggrieved par ly i was not particularly anxious lo renew ihe acquaintance â€” the jilt ! as soon as the boat touched lhe pier i was on il/and offfor a bath the lady for lhe time was forgotten and issu ing from the house in my rough bathing diess i plunged into the breakers i had been fro licking some lime laying my hand on the ocean mane and the ocean laying his hand on mine when i saw two or ihree other bathers edging up towards me in between the swells there was a lady evidently in advance her com pany apparently forgot her at last and still she approached me i went further out she fol lowed and i found she was determined lo speak to me i knew who she was of course a huge wave came in and knocked the woman down but sticking her hand out of the water she gave one scream and lhal brought me i was on the spot as soon as i could get there and grasping her arm raised her to her feet ' oh !' said the lady ' wha â€” wha â€” what a meet â€” meeting after such a parting â– well â€” yes said i bluntly she now undertook to look lhe graleful and the interesting yvhen a huge wave struck her as she looked up lo me yvith parted lips and crammed her dear mouth with salt water she dropped again and again i pulled her out and she was either very weak or she thought i was certainly very strong " mary said i 'â€¢ have you been happy since we parted ?" she answered me with a sigh and then look ing up to me put the same question says i " ho hum â€” ho hum â€” ho hum â€” mary don't talk about it " i have learned some things since then said she " yes says i " i believe you have ; you married a learned man i think " me married !" â– â– what did you jilt a very good looking man for ten years ago but lo marry a certain learned man asked i fiercely " i beg you will not allude to the foolishness of a school girl replied ibe lady and then changing the subject she wanted to know how she should have fell if in saving her from a watery grave i had drowned myself i told her it would probably have made less difference with her and me than with my wife and child ! she gave me but one look and rose to her feet and put " i saw her hut a moment but methinks i see her now as she walked off with her bathing dress stick ing to her and her little bare feet fairly indent ing the sand with tbe spitefulness of her step reasons for not drinking i will not drink because i can do just as well without it i will not drink because i can do much bet ter without it i will not drink because i wish to be ahvays in my senses and a man who drinks is in im minent danger of losing his senses i will not drink because i do not yvish even to become subject to such an appetite i will not drink for fear i should sometimes drink too much and lose my self respect i will not drink lest my wife should despise me ; or my children be ashamed of me i will not drink lest my acquaintance should smell my breath and say he loves liquor loo much i will not drink in hot weather because i can better keep cool without ; nor in cold weather because i can better keep cool with out it i will not drink because that is the best and only security for living a sober man and i will not run any risk of leaving to my children he inheritance of a drunkard's name i wilt not drink liquor because no one can shoyv me any good reason for drinking i will not drink liquor because it increases thirst ; yvaler assuages it i will not drink liquor because il tends to pro duce disease because it makes men lorgetlul of god disqualifies them for his service and renders them unfit for the kingdom ot heaven we have known drunken judges ; they lost the confidence of lhe public the esteem of their iriends and their own respect office charac ter and fortune were lost we have known drunken lawyers ; sooner or later their practice foisook them and they were ruined we have known drunken physicians : their patients distrusted them and after a while they had no patients we have known drunken preachers : â€” they yvere left without churches ihey forfeited ali claim to earthly respectability and bud no title to a better world than this all have heard of accidents occurring by the carelessness or drunkenness of stage drivers engineers and pilots no man willingly trusts himself to their keeping drunken blacksmiths shoemakers tailors c ic all share the fate of the drunken judge and physician they lose their busi ness and character in a word we have never known a drunkard who was considered a respectable man hoyv came this judge lawyer physician preacher stage-driver â€” how came any man lo be a drundark ? by drinking liquor : and by drinking a first soberly and moderately will you certainly avoid ihe drunkard's fate ? drink no intoxicating liquor â€” drink xot at all drive thy business or il will drive thee j " somewhere about here yy rites a southern correspondent lives a small farmer of such social habits that his com ing home intoxicated was once no unusu i al thing his wile urged him in vain to sign the pledge ' why you see he would say th sign it after a while but i don't like to break oir right at once ; it aint wholesome the best way always is to get used to a thing by degrees you know very well old man his help mate would rejoin see now if you don't ; fall into a hole one of these days while you can't take care of yourself and no body near to take you out sure enough as if to verify the prophecy a couple of days after he did fall in ; and after a deal of uselessscrambling shouted for the light of his eyes to come and help him out j didn't i tell you so said the good soul showing her cap frill over the edge ofthe parapet : you've got into a hole at last and its only lucky i'm in hearing or , you might have drowned you old dog yout well she continued after a pause let ting doyvn lhe bucket lake hold and . up he came higher and higher at each 1 turn of the windlass until the old lady's ', grasp slipping from tbe handle down he : went to the bottom again this occurr ing more than once made the temporary occupant of the yvell suspicious look : here he screamed in a fury at the last ; splash you're doing that on purpose â€” i know you are !' well noyv i aw respon ded his old oman tranquilly while wind 1 ing him up once more don't you re \ member telling me it's best to get used to i things by degrees i'm yraid if i was to bring you right up on a sudden you would ' not find it wholesome !' the old fellow could not help chuckling at the applica tion of the principle and protested he would sign the pledge on the instant if she would lift him fairly out this she did and packed him oil to syvear in wet as he was for you see she added very emphatically if you ever fall into the well again i'll leave you thar â€” so i will !" knickerbocker the hastings milk/nan â€” jinks the i hastings milkman one morning forgot to ; water his milk jn the hall ol the hrst customer in his round the sad omission 'â– flashed upon jinks wounded feelings â€” a large tub of fine clear water stood on the floor by his side no eye yvas upon him i and thrice did jinks dilute his milk with . a large measure filled from the tub be ; fore the maid brought up her jugs jinks : served her and went on while he was j bellowing down the next area his first 1 customer's footman beckoned to him from i the door jinks returned and was imme \ diately ushered into the library there ' sat my lord who had just tasted the milk jinks !'' said his lordship " my lord !" replied jinks jinks continued his lordship i j should feel particularly obliged if you ; would henceforth bring me the milk and water seperately and alloyv me the lavor i of mixing them myself â€¢** well my lord it's useless to deny the ; thing for i suppose your lordship watched j me while â€” " " no interrupted the nobleman â€¢' the ; fact is that my children bathe at home j jinks and the tub in the halt yvas full of | sea water jinks â€” companion lo a cigar high low jack and game â€” a number of well-dressed boys were once tormenting a sailor who was in vain endeavoring to keep them off ! with a broken spade handle which he was j using for a club when a gentleman called out to them " boys ! if jack is high it is rather | low business for you to be making game of : him jack whose wits yvere as sharp as a j diamond â€” the principal difficulty with him seem i ing to be in the lightness of his feet or theun ] steadiness of lhe ground under them which ! made his easiest mode of progression to be on j all-fours â€” immediately responded : then we i are even i am high jack to their low game but clubs is trumps the deuce is in me if i â– don't beat em yel to my heart's content one of the most beautiful gems in oriental literature is contained in a passage from ha persian poet sadi quoted by sir w jonee the-sentimcnl of which is embodied in the fol lowing lines : the sandal ir^e perfumes when riven the axe tint laid it low lÂ»-l man who hopes to be forgiven forgive and hiÂ«.-s3 his foe noble and witty reply â€” in 1586 philip ii , sent lhe young constable of castile to roma to congratulate sextus ibe fifth on his advance ment ibe pope imprudently said " are there so tew men in spain that your king sends me one without a beard ?" sir said the fierce spaniard " if his ma jesty possessed the least ilea lhal imagined merit lay in a beard be would doubtless have deputed a goal lo you not a gentleman some persons think lhat moral suasion if propeily used will close every nimshop in the land do such know anything about the profits of the business ? says tbe new haven report : " of four grog sh<*ps in new haven one brings a net profit of from 800 to 1000 dollars yearly taking lhe lowest estimate ofthe clear income of this one drinking shop and allowing â€¢ that profit on the saks is fifty per cent tbe pro prietor must deal out to customers annually some tweuly-seven thousand glasses of iutoxi eating diink if we suppose ihat lhe ales and profits of the other three establishments are iu lhe samo proportion and if wc allow for lhe much larger sales in iwo of them we bare the conclusion ihat al least one hundred thou sand glasses ar consumed in the lour dm ing lhe year at an expense of more than 96,000 to tbe con-umer and these consumers are not the prostrate victims of intemperance who can not alf rd to pay sixpense lor a dram ; ihey aie rather those who present ss y ' Â» lolerabl bur exterior ; ih<*y ar your - ms clerks your a preniices those who ar gathered hen lo be educated and those with w bona yoo an con nected in the dearest relations â– ' life what can mora suasion do i:h lhe ordina ry keepers of such eslablisbioeiils ! as h.ng as ihe heart of man craves gold so long men who are conducting rn a business hi float at nil persoasi '" abandon it nothin but the strong power of law will break them up and banish them forever â€” journal

1 hao watchman - hscripi'00 l'"r year two dollars â€” payable in fl *"* but if not paid in advance two dollars v'iii'i'v cts will be charged b<1!^eÂ«e.vrs inserted at 1 for the first nnd q5 cts v ll'l??i 3ubsequeni insertion court orders charged ff eatct higher than these rates a liberal deduc â€¢ to those l|0 advertise hy lhe year v i the editors must he post paid lot s fbaxcisco california ? july 13th 1850 s , v bruner sp james â€¢ " if my last letter was so for ie as to reach you you will have followed in my progress toward the land of gold as n crures i slept there on the nighl of i(j;h nt may upon one of about thirty nrran^ed around lhe rooms like stalls in â€¢Â« three deep with a space of one foot be ' ecu the temperature was precisely right j wjihoul blanket or other cover but with a od cane covered roof between me and the , ot heaven let alone the two sleepers who cupied successively lhe shelves above me i u0 soundly and had a sweet dream of i waa un betimes next morning sunday n _ :*. v i 1 1 " keep a check tnros all your editor sf proprietor ) rulers ( new series do this and liberty is safe < gen'l harrieon ( volume vii number 18 salisbury n c thursday september 12 1850 round willi dry hides which my fellow travel lers hail appropriated al the raie of two reals each : mine host was beginning to pound the rice for the matutinal meal while madame and the senorilas were gathering the means and appliances for preparing a kettle of coffee which she soon after began to serve out to her customers al ihe ra'e of a picayune for the gourdfiil with the aid of this luxury my re maining stock of provisions furnished me a ve ry good breakfitsl the whole being rounded off with a " native segar purchased upon the pre miscs at the rate of a real a dozen at seven i was again under way carrying somewhat lighter weights than before in about an hour i came up with the mule carrying my big trunk ihe hombre in attendance having stopped lo take a drink i simply gave the latter a nod of recognition and paÂ«sed on satisfied lhat all would he right i'he road began now lo im prove the houses became more numerous passengers more frequent baskets of fruit were displayed for sale bananas limes or anges lhe hitter of the very finest description and dog cheap i passed the bridge two miles from town where i found several americans wailing upon the lookout for friends and about half a mile on called a halt at some fine springs where i saw great numbers of the natives washing it appeared lhal this was the prin cipai source for the supply of water for the city the transportation being effected by mules car ' tying four jars each lashed lo a pack saddle i j soon took the road again being curious to see tbe city indications of lhe presence andcha j racterislics of my own countrymen now be i came sufficiently apparent upon rude shan j lies ihickly scattered along lhe road side i coarsely painted signs were displayed as if to invite the weary traveller to repose the " ir ving house the " astor the " fremont the lovejoy's c severally presented their claims to consideration i contented myself with a single glass of " root beer which an enter j prising youth was dealing out from a two by four feet stall at a liule past ten i was marching up to the gates ofthe city â€” for panama is a walled town â€” and looking out for quarters the hotels along the principal street were sufficiently numerous but among them all i am free to confess it i had no hesitation in making choice of the " new england house its name was so very pleasantly suggestive of codfish and " baked beans !" i engaged board at fifteen dimes 1 87 _) per day and secured the use of a litlle cage of a room close under the roof of tho house for myself and one other prefering this tolaking my chance among the general herd who were fore ed lo strew themselves at night along the floors and tables the hotel was crowded to over flowing with all sorts of people talking all sorts ol languages and the " noise and confusion kept the old grey headed landlord in a state of continual and very unpleasant excitement i now began to have doubts about the genuine ness of his puritanism fori discovered lhat he cursed and blasphemed with a most unusual degree of bitterness and volubility to my inquiries upon this head he informed me that he had bought out the establishment from a yankee who had recently quilled it for califor nia but lhat for himself he was from the eas tern part of north carolina ! this announce j ment did'nt set me back any as you may i suppose the landlord and i afier that got i into a way of having a liltle spread of ham and eggs " to ourselves them must have been three thousand ame ricans in and about the city waiting for a pas | sage to california some had been there sev | eral weeks others for months tickets were selling as high as 800 some were turning an honest penny and bettering their pecuniary i condition â€” others wasting their small pittance day by day gambling was rife : monti ta bles to be seen at every corner drinking loo was quite fashionable the buildings at panama are all old and many of them a good deal gone to decay the churches however still retain traces of their former magnificence the lowers of some of them are ornamented with rows of pearl shells : the altars candlesticks c are in some in j stances of massive silver our american boys however treat these sacred things with a sad want of reverence sometimes lighting iheir se gars at llie candles burning before lhe altars and sometimes watering their mules at the holy founts ! the streets are generally paved in clining to the centre which lorms a gutter â€” the houses have but few windows and these are without glass being closed with shutters the city mighl be kept clean at a very small expense but is really in a very filly condition it will however be americanized in a short ime i remained in the city just two days â€” my men came up with my bagage in due time ev fry thing safe i think the natives from cha gres to panama the most honest people i have ever met with i was continually passing mule loads of gold and silver on my walk to pana ma without any thing like a sufficient guard in any instance i find i shall not have space to enter much into the detail of my trip irom panama to san francisco we stopped but once touching at acapulco just one week irom panama for fuel water and iruits the harbor here is one of1 the prettiest i ever saw you run in for about ' half a mile through a passage of the same width turn short to your lell and find yourself in a circular basin three fourths of a mile in diameter completely landlocked by high moun tains with the town just before you rising from ! the shore to the top of the mountains all ! kinds of tropical fruits are here cheap and abundant i think that much of the travel from the slates to california will hereafter be by j way of vera cruz mexico and this place â€” | having remained at acapulco two days we i were off again for california we had suffer ! ed somewhat from heat hitherto but within two days we began lo feel the cold winds from lhe northwest and strange lo say when we were precisely under the sun overcoats were need ed wo made land only once near cape st lucas until we reached the vicinity of this i place the practice usually being to keep near the shore most of the way for the last day | or two we run along wiihin six or eight miles of the coast a continuous range of lofty and precipitous mountains skirls lhe shore these are for lhe most part barren of irees ; and in deed so far as i could see of all vegetation whatsoever i learned however from those who ought to know that what appeared lo he but yellow sand was really wild oats just ripe ! thursday morning june 20th the bustle in the cabin started me rather earlier lhan usual and upon going on deck i found lhal i were in sight of the golden gate a mere gap in the mountains say a mile wide we entered it near due east three or four miles turned short around a promontory on our right five or six hundred feel high and â€” what a sight ! if you have seen the shipping at new york you have some idea of il ; a forest of masts with flags of all nations flying at their peaks ! i got my self and baggage landed for two dollars and the latter carried three squares to where i put up for iwo more besides paying forty cents for wharfage i have now been here three weeks and three days and have so far got over the confusion incidental to my first impressions as to be able to give you some facts every thing in the shape of merchandise can be had here in the greatest abundance things which are in demand being three or four times the prices in the slates ; things which are not in demand are auctioned off tor almost nothing thick warm clothing is requisite the year round â€” i speak o this city : up lhe country it is frequently very hot al mid day the climate of ihis place is in me a mystery the greatest range of the thermometer has been from 50 lo 70 since i have been here â€” i believe il has not touched eiiher point it is safe betting even that at 6 a lyl it will be within one degree of 60 at 12 1vi within one degree of 68 ; at 5 p m wiihin one degree of 60 again and at 9 with in the same distance of 54 the consequence is lhat there is no absolute necessity of fires except to cook by and in fact not one room in twenty has a fire place why then the neces sity for so much clothing ? i sleep under more covering than i needed in the winter season in north carolina and i never think of going out after five p m without an overcoat the truth is the wind begins to rise by ten or twelve it blows from the north-west and while it don't effect the thermometer much it certainly tells upon the human frame it is said however that there is no difference between summer and winter except that one is wet and other dry â€” and so dry ! just fancy the streets of salisbury covered four to six inches deep with ashes â€” suppose the wind blowing some where between a stiff breeze and a gale â€” how far do you think you could see what would be the condition of your eyes ? what of your clothes ? add in this connection the supposition that washing was five dollars a dozen ; what would you think of it ? such is san francisco ! as i have alluded to prices i will dilate a little board ranges irom seven dollars a day down to four including lodgings single meals at a restaurant from one to two dollars rent is the dearest thing in propor tion i pay 75 a month for my office a small room 16 feet by 9 on a second floor a cot mattrass pillow and blankets exclusive of the bed linen cost me 50 other things in propor tion it would take a big pile to live here long at lhat rate however i am beginning to do something for myself i have taken in 130 for fees in the past week and have two big cases on hand which will " net me something hand some i trust there is another thing it is all hard money in this democratic country and i take it that counterfeit " fellers would go about as well as any â€” for so far as i see there is now " sly inspection of any coin every body counts it gold as well as silver just as a gam bler does his checks by first counting one pile then making the others of the same height ! â€” speaking of gambling you may see more here in one hour lhan you could possibly see in a lifetime in the united states it perfectly ap pals me â€” i used to indulge occasionally in a small way and among select b'hoys but i have never risked a dollar upon a game in califor nia i am retained by a defendant who bet upon a credit till he lost 4000 and is no sued for the recovery of that sum there is no statute upon the subject and how the judges will hold the common law of the state to be i cannot tell some of these functionaries have bled recently as i understand to the extent of their year's salaries themselves ! one of them the other night " run agin four nines while he held only " a ace full ! ! so i was told ! on the whole this is a great country and things is lively there are lots of doctors with nothing to do for one thing is certain tbe city is healthy nothing in lhe shape of sickness pre vails except dysentery which is owing to the too free use of the water the latter contains magnesia and requires to be slightly dashed of preachers there is but a limited number but as there is no demand the market is dull of lawyers i don't know lhe precise number i should set it down at a rough estimate at two hundred and doubtless there are more " a comin but there is " lots of law business no article is manufactured which can be hrought from elsewhere printers carpenters painters masons and common laborers are al ways in demand one building in fifty is a dwelling house the balance are stores restau rants gambling houses offices and hotels rank ing by numbers iu the order named i sup pose there are more restaurants here than in any other city in the united slates not exclu ding new york the city authorities are about to direct the grading and planking of eight or ten of the principal streets and the construction of several large wharves the city hall containing various court rooms and rooms for the city officers is about 100 by 50 feet in size and four stories high the county has purchased a lot on which to erect a court house at a cost of 120,000 the cily is laid off into squares with sides of 100 varas and 150 varas the vara being two feet nine inches in length on one side of the portsmouth square the old plaza there are four buildings occupying the whole space oi 276 feet ihree of them are exclusively devoted to gambling containing but a single room each running back say a hundred feet i say exclusively there is however a bar to each forty or fifty feet long and one of lhe rooms has four bill iard tables these rooms are usually well filled during the day and crowded al night â€” j there are sixteen large chandeliers to a room i 1 and the walls are hung round with paintings of i most costly but not of the most deiicale de ', scription the fourth building is of brick just , completed four stories high above the base â€¢ ment and fire proof i do not know to what use it is to be appropriated the city has be ! , fore it a career such as the world has never i seen wealth luxury magnificence power i a people distinguished by intelligence activity j and great abilities these will be hers ; butthe : i pure morals the domestic virtues â€” the domes ] tic happiness enjoyed by the people of poorer ; i states will alas ! be wanting you will certainly write to me and give me ' | a detail of all that has occurred since i left the ;â– ; place god knows the old toyvn is dear lo me \ ! and i shall return to it one day as to a home yours truly j c " and the lord said unto satan from ! j whence comest thou ? and satan answered j i the lord and said from going to and fro in â– | the earth and from walking up and down in il , job 2d chap 2d vr that man who goes wandering about over , mountains hills and plains not seeking whom ; he may " devour but whom he may interro gale concerning peas and beans and tbe like j cannot be treated with much injustice we are ! inclined lo think if compared to the enemy of i the human race after mature reflection and examination ofthe highest authorities we give i it as our legal opinion that such an individual might be successfully prosecuted as an officious i meddler in private affairs we say the man | yvho unblushingly walks into a parlor and pre j j sumes to ask ladies old and young their names ! and more especially their ages richly deserves ; the frowns ot the whole sex ; and perhaps he i would not be maltreated hoyvever hard he might i deem his peculiar case if all the dogs hounds ! and curs yvere turned loose upon him just think of lhe fellow's impudence will you ? â€” why he just walks in â€” he does affect to " bow and scrape a little but all for mere show â€” and scarcely takes time lo seal himself before he commences his silly nonsense a tolera tion of such conduct is altogether intolerable and a lady would do herself credit in our estima tion by throwing hot water on such scamps as practice it a young man sat out a month ago on a mis sion someyvhat like that above sketched his food was various and not seldom precarious his hat was panama ; his coat variable for it changed witb the signs of the times chamelion like ; his vest decidedly modest and by no means costly ; and other things adapted to the foregoing he knew that shakespeare says " costly thy habit as thy purse can buy but not expressed in fancy ; rich not gaudy : for the apparel oft proclaims the man ; and they in france of the best rank and station are most select and generous chief in that but deemed it good advice only for meet occa sions under fit circumstances he had a com mission under the government of the united states travelled on horseback carried a port folia convenienly suspended in an oil-cloth cov ering and was authorized officially to proceed j in due manner and form to take what the old i women call tbe senses of tbe people and to be especially particular in ascertaining tbe exact ages ofall unmarried ladies and confirm ed bachelors he resolved in the outset not quiet ! ly to allow lhe motives ofthe government which ! he served to be assailed wisely concluding that ! one's real follies are enough to be borne he \ has strictly adhered to this determination and 1 has struggled hard in many instances against j the potent arguments of incensed old ladies â€” j incensed because they have a holy horror ot i taxes and look upon " taking the senses as ; the first step lo taxation ; and above all of fended in dignity at the mere presence of an â– official after the official had propounded all his ques tions on one occasion and they had been prompt ly answered the good old lady ruled forth as as follows : " noyv stranger i want you to tell me yvhat j j all this is for some tells me it is for direct j taxes and i can't see any other use in all of it it can't be for no good and there's no sort ofj use in it i'm opposed to all sich proceedins j so i am !" here the young man explained and became i almost eloquent in attempting to sustain the j government the good lady's wrath became | somewhat appeased but nol wholly suppressed " well she resumed " wont the plank road raise the taxes the official frankly acknowledged lhat such a thing might be among public contingences i but hinted that it was a matter foreign to his i business " yes said she excited beyond measure " i j knew it would be so i am imposed lo plank j roads any how and believe il a great sin to travel on them the almighty made lhe coun try good enough and it's a sin to build such great fine roads for your fine gentlemen you . ihink the ground's too good for you to walk on ; and want us poor people taxed to fine planks ; laid down for you now i tell you stranger i '. we'll submit to no sich unpositions the al ! mighty will visit you " senses as he did da j vid and cut you all off thank heaven ! yes j he will ; and you deserve it as richly as any set ', of fellers ever did ! you ought to be unsbamed j of yerselfs tryin to impress on us poor folks iu that sort so yer ought !" the census man here endeavored to explain but all to no purpose he soon gave up in despair and was compelled to decamp listening to the distant echoes of lhe enraged ladies voice when away from the confusion and fright of this scene he could not but repeat lo himself those beautiful lines of moore i " how calm how beautiful comes on the stilly hour when storms are gone ; then wurring minds have ditÂ»d away and clouds beneath the glancing ray melt off and leave the land and sea sleeping in bright tranquility ashboro1 herald he lhat hath slight thoughts of sin ne i ver had great thoughts of god the romance of sea bathing a scene on the banks a correspondent of the springfield republi ; can is responsible for the following story it j is a remarkable instance of disappointed love j and affections yvhich were not buried : during my passage down the bay i had caught several glaces of a familliar face i knew i had seen it before but where ? the lady as evidently had been subject to a jog of memory the exchange of a few glances sat isfied us both and we only wanted a proper op portuniiy or disposition to speak ten long years before we had parted in a huff and con sidering myself at the lime the aggrieved par ly i was not particularly anxious lo renew ihe acquaintance â€” the jilt ! as soon as the boat touched lhe pier i was on il/and offfor a bath the lady for lhe time was forgotten and issu ing from the house in my rough bathing diess i plunged into the breakers i had been fro licking some lime laying my hand on the ocean mane and the ocean laying his hand on mine when i saw two or ihree other bathers edging up towards me in between the swells there was a lady evidently in advance her com pany apparently forgot her at last and still she approached me i went further out she fol lowed and i found she was determined lo speak to me i knew who she was of course a huge wave came in and knocked the woman down but sticking her hand out of the water she gave one scream and lhal brought me i was on the spot as soon as i could get there and grasping her arm raised her to her feet ' oh !' said the lady ' wha â€” wha â€” what a meet â€” meeting after such a parting â– well â€” yes said i bluntly she now undertook to look lhe graleful and the interesting yvhen a huge wave struck her as she looked up lo me yvith parted lips and crammed her dear mouth with salt water she dropped again and again i pulled her out and she was either very weak or she thought i was certainly very strong " mary said i 'â€¢ have you been happy since we parted ?" she answered me with a sigh and then look ing up to me put the same question says i " ho hum â€” ho hum â€” ho hum â€” mary don't talk about it " i have learned some things since then said she " yes says i " i believe you have ; you married a learned man i think " me married !" â– â– what did you jilt a very good looking man for ten years ago but lo marry a certain learned man asked i fiercely " i beg you will not allude to the foolishness of a school girl replied ibe lady and then changing the subject she wanted to know how she should have fell if in saving her from a watery grave i had drowned myself i told her it would probably have made less difference with her and me than with my wife and child ! she gave me but one look and rose to her feet and put " i saw her hut a moment but methinks i see her now as she walked off with her bathing dress stick ing to her and her little bare feet fairly indent ing the sand with tbe spitefulness of her step reasons for not drinking i will not drink because i can do just as well without it i will not drink because i can do much bet ter without it i will not drink because i wish to be ahvays in my senses and a man who drinks is in im minent danger of losing his senses i will not drink because i do not yvish even to become subject to such an appetite i will not drink for fear i should sometimes drink too much and lose my self respect i will not drink lest my wife should despise me ; or my children be ashamed of me i will not drink lest my acquaintance should smell my breath and say he loves liquor loo much i will not drink in hot weather because i can better keep cool without ; nor in cold weather because i can better keep cool with out it i will not drink because that is the best and only security for living a sober man and i will not run any risk of leaving to my children he inheritance of a drunkard's name i wilt not drink liquor because no one can shoyv me any good reason for drinking i will not drink liquor because it increases thirst ; yvaler assuages it i will not drink liquor because il tends to pro duce disease because it makes men lorgetlul of god disqualifies them for his service and renders them unfit for the kingdom ot heaven we have known drunken judges ; they lost the confidence of lhe public the esteem of their iriends and their own respect office charac ter and fortune were lost we have known drunken lawyers ; sooner or later their practice foisook them and they were ruined we have known drunken physicians : their patients distrusted them and after a while they had no patients we have known drunken preachers : â€” they yvere left without churches ihey forfeited ali claim to earthly respectability and bud no title to a better world than this all have heard of accidents occurring by the carelessness or drunkenness of stage drivers engineers and pilots no man willingly trusts himself to their keeping drunken blacksmiths shoemakers tailors c ic all share the fate of the drunken judge and physician they lose their busi ness and character in a word we have never known a drunkard who was considered a respectable man hoyv came this judge lawyer physician preacher stage-driver â€” how came any man lo be a drundark ? by drinking liquor : and by drinking a first soberly and moderately will you certainly avoid ihe drunkard's fate ? drink no intoxicating liquor â€” drink xot at all drive thy business or il will drive thee j " somewhere about here yy rites a southern correspondent lives a small farmer of such social habits that his com ing home intoxicated was once no unusu i al thing his wile urged him in vain to sign the pledge ' why you see he would say th sign it after a while but i don't like to break oir right at once ; it aint wholesome the best way always is to get used to a thing by degrees you know very well old man his help mate would rejoin see now if you don't ; fall into a hole one of these days while you can't take care of yourself and no body near to take you out sure enough as if to verify the prophecy a couple of days after he did fall in ; and after a deal of uselessscrambling shouted for the light of his eyes to come and help him out j didn't i tell you so said the good soul showing her cap frill over the edge ofthe parapet : you've got into a hole at last and its only lucky i'm in hearing or , you might have drowned you old dog yout well she continued after a pause let ting doyvn lhe bucket lake hold and . up he came higher and higher at each 1 turn of the windlass until the old lady's ', grasp slipping from tbe handle down he : went to the bottom again this occurr ing more than once made the temporary occupant of the yvell suspicious look : here he screamed in a fury at the last ; splash you're doing that on purpose â€” i know you are !' well noyv i aw respon ded his old oman tranquilly while wind 1 ing him up once more don't you re \ member telling me it's best to get used to i things by degrees i'm yraid if i was to bring you right up on a sudden you would ' not find it wholesome !' the old fellow could not help chuckling at the applica tion of the principle and protested he would sign the pledge on the instant if she would lift him fairly out this she did and packed him oil to syvear in wet as he was for you see she added very emphatically if you ever fall into the well again i'll leave you thar â€” so i will !" knickerbocker the hastings milk/nan â€” jinks the i hastings milkman one morning forgot to ; water his milk jn the hall ol the hrst customer in his round the sad omission 'â– flashed upon jinks wounded feelings â€” a large tub of fine clear water stood on the floor by his side no eye yvas upon him i and thrice did jinks dilute his milk with . a large measure filled from the tub be ; fore the maid brought up her jugs jinks : served her and went on while he was j bellowing down the next area his first 1 customer's footman beckoned to him from i the door jinks returned and was imme \ diately ushered into the library there ' sat my lord who had just tasted the milk jinks !'' said his lordship " my lord !" replied jinks jinks continued his lordship i j should feel particularly obliged if you ; would henceforth bring me the milk and water seperately and alloyv me the lavor i of mixing them myself â€¢** well my lord it's useless to deny the ; thing for i suppose your lordship watched j me while â€” " " no interrupted the nobleman â€¢' the ; fact is that my children bathe at home j jinks and the tub in the halt yvas full of | sea water jinks â€” companion lo a cigar high low jack and game â€” a number of well-dressed boys were once tormenting a sailor who was in vain endeavoring to keep them off ! with a broken spade handle which he was j using for a club when a gentleman called out to them " boys ! if jack is high it is rather | low business for you to be making game of : him jack whose wits yvere as sharp as a j diamond â€” the principal difficulty with him seem i ing to be in the lightness of his feet or theun ] steadiness of lhe ground under them which ! made his easiest mode of progression to be on j all-fours â€” immediately responded : then we i are even i am high jack to their low game but clubs is trumps the deuce is in me if i â– don't beat em yel to my heart's content one of the most beautiful gems in oriental literature is contained in a passage from ha persian poet sadi quoted by sir w jonee the-sentimcnl of which is embodied in the fol lowing lines : the sandal ir^e perfumes when riven the axe tint laid it low lÂ»-l man who hopes to be forgiven forgive and hiÂ«.-s3 his foe noble and witty reply â€” in 1586 philip ii , sent lhe young constable of castile to roma to congratulate sextus ibe fifth on his advance ment ibe pope imprudently said " are there so tew men in spain that your king sends me one without a beard ?" sir said the fierce spaniard " if his ma jesty possessed the least ilea lhal imagined merit lay in a beard be would doubtless have deputed a goal lo you not a gentleman some persons think lhat moral suasion if propeily used will close every nimshop in the land do such know anything about the profits of the business ? says tbe new haven report : " of four grog sh